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A Cavalia crew member rests after scaling one of the 10-story-high peaks of the “big white top” to plant the Odysseo flag yesterday. – Photo by Elizabeth Sheeran.

By Elizabeth Sheeran

Five dozen horses. More than 100 semi-trailer trucks. And the largest big top tent of its kind. Cavalia has arrived in Somerville with the kind of fanfare reminiscent of the days when everything shut down the day the travelling circus came to town.

Last Thursday’s multi-unit fire on Calvin St. brought firefighters from surrounding communities in to help battles the blaze that had the potential to do a lot more damage than it did. – Photo by Teresa Hohenstein

By Harry Kane

A large fire broke out in Somerville, burning down a pair of three-decker houses, and damaging neighboring homes on Calvin Street and Beacon Place last Thursday, July 25. There were no casualties.

The Somerville Chamber monthly “After Hours” is this Thursday night. Join members and guests from Aflac, Cambridge Savings Bank, Chase, City of Somerville, Commonwealth Financial Group, Community Action Agency of Somerville, Law Office of Richard DiGirolamo, Eastern Bank, Langton & Douglas, Laurenz Financial, Legal Shield, Life Line Business Consulting, Daniel Maher Stained Glass, Misujo Realty, MIT, New York Life, Pinctada Banquet & Event Center, Redbones, Respond, Rockland Trust, Sav Mor Spirits, Smiles by Rosie, Somerville Homeless Coalition, Union Square Main Streets, Walnut Street Center, and Winter Hill Bank at the Chamber’s next Business After Hours. 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Thursday, August 1, at Redbones-Underbones, 55 Chester Street, Davis Square. It’s an excellent networking event featuring free appetizers and a free business card drawing with cash bar. Sponsored by Rockland Trust. Hosted by Business After Hours Chair Dana Iacopucci of Cubby Oil & Energy. RSVP for “After Hours” with name(s) and affiliation(s) for you and your guest(s) to smackey@somervillechamber.org.

Somerville Fighters acknowledged my Fox 25 during the Firehouse Friday segment of Zip Trip . ~Photo by Emmanuel Vincent

By Emmanuel Vincent

Despite the cold, gloomy and wet weather, residents of the city came out to Union Square as Fox25’s Zip Trip made its way to Somerville this past Friday morning.

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To The Editor:

In the early morning of July 25th a seven-alarm fire raged through a section of Ward 2 displacing 44 residents and destroying 2 buildings with damage to 4 others.

In between the rainstorms, heat waves, and other general mayhem doled out by Mother Nature these days, we can enjoy that particularly sweet spot of the year known as summer.

Vacations, outings, visits to and from friends and family, all play a part in structuring the season’s schedule of things to do. Another sublimely satisfying way to pass leisure time is by attending outdoor sports events, and one doesn’t have to drop a week’s pay at Fenway or Gillette in order to let the family take in some topnotch action on the field.

By Jim Clark

Police responded to a report of an unwanted female at a Ten Hills Rd. residence last Thursday. The reporting party had told police that his ex-girlfriend was banging on his back door, trying to gain entry.

– Photo by Harry Kane

By Mike Stoller

Seventeen hits, including five doubles, propelled the Somerville Alibrandis baseball team to a solid 11-3 victory over the host Savin Hill Hornets last week. A 3-3 game was put out of reach when Alibrandis scored two in the second inning, three in the fifth, two in the sixth, and one in the seventh.

Christina Tedesco, a Somerville resident who suffers from cerebral palsy faces many challenges, but she remains a committed artist. Tedesco, who I met at my usual perch at the Bloc 11 Café in Union Square, wrote on her website that her art “…deals with the movement of the human body through space and time. Specifically it deals with the control between balance and imbalance, control and the lack thereof.” “Control and the lack  thereof” are issues that Tedesco faces with her own body, and in her art.

Summer Cold–Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Well–poet Keith Tornheim will explain.